CHEMUK records 41% increase in visitors for 2023 Expo!

CHEMUK 2023 opened its doors on Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th May at the NEC in Birmingham to a record attendance of 3,956 visitors (excluding exhibitor staff) over the two days, representing an increase of 41% from the 2022 edition. The total two-day attendance (visitors plus exhibitors) was 5,559.

CHEMUK show founder, Ian Stone, sums up this years’ event, “The industry is now responding to the single ‘destination experience’ of CHEMUK providing deliberately segmented zones of specialist industry capability and solutions, supported with unmissable intelligence, whilst at the same time uniting the entire UK chemical industries ‘value chain’ under one giant roof annually.”

Minister George Freeman leads UK Government briefing
A dedicated video address from the Minister of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, George Freeman, underpinned a comprehensive

UK Government presence and input across the two days, with show floor presence and vital conference input from the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Health and Safety Executive. You can watch the full address at: www.chemicalukexpo.com

IChemE adds to the line-up of supporting bodies
The 2023 show saw the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) join an already impressive line-up of supporting industry and trade bodies both on the show floor and hosting crucial intelligence and keynotes across the integrated CHEMUK conference. This included the likes of CBA, BCA, BASA, BioVale, BCMPA, CPI, CCUK, IBioIC, GAMBICA, NEPIC, SIA, and InnovateUK KTN, to name a few.

RSC as CHEMUK 2023
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was again at the centre of CHEMUK, with a packed two-day programme including an RSC stand, careers clinic, feature RSC conference sessions, a keynote from current RSC President, Professor Gill Reid, and a dedicated members reception.

Where the magic happens!
CHEMUK has become the only destination in the UK where all the key bodies, major companies, and industry stakeholder groups embracing organic and inorganic synthetics, formulation chemistry, analytical and materials chemistry, industrial biotechnology, and chemical and process engineering are ‘predictably’ in the same ‘time’ and ‘space,’ under one giant roof, alongside a wealth of downstream chemical-dependent industries. This is our pick of the best exhibitors from this year’s event, listed here in alphabetical order: Anglo Stainless Steel, BCMPA, Bruker Biospin, Borregaard, Filedar Filter Systems, Greenway Environmental, Hellma Analytics, Key Organics, Patent Outsourcing, Proximion, Rigaku, Royal Society of Chemistry, SA Partners, Suurmond & Veolia Water Technologies UK. Further details can be found on the next 5 pages.

Dates for Diary: CHEMUK 2024 (NEC, Birmingham) Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th May 2024. www.chemicalukexpo.com